The Master Key To Solving Puzzles — Mind On Math, Part 2
Meditation On Math
4 min readMay 21, 2024
Mathematics should be taught as a means to be able to think and reason to state out all the known and unknown variables, factors, conditions, etc; to set premises and use known laws to bridge to more knowns; to rearrange or remap to another domain to see different perspectives, to leverage known laws and principles, and to find means to minimize, nullify, neutralize and cancel off the unknowns or redundant — Occam’s razor, and we will get closer to uncover the `yet-to-be-knowns`.
Tenets (Part 2)
1. Decomposition Analysis
2. Create Variables (And Functions) To Find Relationships
3. Express In Polynomials
4. Create The Means To Simplify (Or Self-Reduce)
5. Learn To Recognize Patterns
6. Be Familiar With Probability And Combinatorics
7. Be Familiar With Series As A Pattern
8. Create Artefacts And Random Play